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SUDAN: IDPs in the cold as slum demolished

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Saturday, December 06, 2008

MANDELA Thursday, December 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of people in a slum 20km south of Khartoum are living in makeshift shelters made of sticks and...

EGYPT: Thousands displaced by rockslide face uncertain future

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Saturday, November 22, 2008

CAIRO Tuesday, September 16, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of slum dwellers displaced by the 6 September rockslide at Dweiqa and Ezbat Bekhiet face an...

ZAMBIA: A new kind of internally displaced people

IRIN

Monday, February 18, 2008

Zambia's open-door investment policy is coming under criticism from rights activists for passing on the real cost of development to the poor, who are...

"My children need to start school but we're stuck in the camp"

IRIN

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Angela, in her thirties, who did not wish to be identified, was born in the vast slum of Kibera in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and has...

KENYA: Inspiring young people in slums

IRIN

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Kenya's general elections in December hold special promise for Willis "Booster" Mbatia, a resident of the sprawling Mathare slums, one of the...